Noun1.dadaism- a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty dada art movement,artistic movement- a group of artists who agree on general principles ...
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025 da•da(dä′dä),USA pronunciationn.(sometimes cap.) Literaturethe style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work...
which most of the Dadaists would have frowned upon, but what they admired in Arp was the use of chance as an element of his art. The principle of chance was employed as an 'anti-art' device, in both Dadaist art and literature, as it overlooked the skill and craftsmanship associated wi...
A cultural movement that began in neutral Zü rich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which involved visual arts, literature ( poetry, art manifestos, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti-war politic through a rejection of the ...
'Those postpunk years from 1978 to 1984 saw the systematic ransacking of twentieth-century modernist art and literature. The entire postpunk period looks like an attempt to replay virtually every major modernist theme and technique via the medium of pop music. Cabaret Voltaire borrowed their name ...
Specialized in extreme and avant-garde prose literature since 1890. Publishers of English books on surrealism, they offer a book list on Dada, expressionnism, Oulipo, the college of Pataphysics... Cabaret Voltaire -From Dada to Nietniet